Month: October 2013

Eleanor Catton has just won the 2013 Booker prize with what the Guardianterms an ‘innovative Victorian thriller’ (if that’s not a contradiction in terms). Catton is quoted as saying that her novel The Luminaries was ‘very strongly influenced by long-form box-set TV drama … at last the novel has found its on-screen equivalent’. But what does it mean to be influenced by box-set TV drama?Just a matter of length? Or is there more to it? Something non-Victorian?

CAMBRIDGE GROUP FOR IRISH STUDIES
Tuesday 22nd October at 8.45pm
The Parlour, Magdalene College
Professor EAMON DUFFY (Magdalene College, Cambridge)
'SEAMUS HEANEY AND CATHOLICISM'
All welcome
Wine and whiskey will flow
Any questions to jk10023

*The Poetry of Things*
24th October 3:30-6:30pm,
*Museum of Classical Archaeology, Sidgwick Avenue, Cambridge CB3 9DA*
Join us for an afternoon of poetry readings and discussion as Gillian
Clarke, Imtiaz Dharker, Sean Borodale and Jo Shapcott talk about their
recent experiences as poets in residence with the Thresholds project in
the University of Cambridge Museums and collections. The poets will be
in conversation with Professors Isobel Armstrong and Steven Connor.
Drinks afterwards.
The Thresholds project coincides with a growing interest in the way that
fiction represents objects and the physical world. Questions are being
asked about how writing mediates objects, the relationship between the
verbal, visual and material and the social life of things. This event
offers an opportunity hear poets and literary scholars consider these
questions and to join in with the discussion!
To read the four poems that will be discussed during this event visit
http://www.thresholds.org.uk/ and search under Gillian Clarke, Imtiaz
Dharker, Sean Borodale and Jo Shapcott.
For more information contact Vicky Mills vm321@cam.ac.uk
<mailto:vm321@cam.ac.uk>

We are pleased to announce a new series of literary talks hosted by Clare Hall. These will take place once or twice a term, and aim to introduce us to some of the most interesting contemporary British writers.

All welcome. Bring a friend. Enjoy a glass of wine, a literary reading and talk, and a lively discussion.